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"I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Their march--over thousands of miles by foot--out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India is a remarkable statement about man's desire to be free. While the original book sold hundreds of thousands of copies, this updated paperback version includes a new Afterword by the author, as well as the author's Foreword to the Polish book. Written in a hauntingly detailed, no holds barred way, the new edition of The Long Walk is destined to outrank its classic status and guaranteed to forever stay in the reader's mind. *** Six-time Academy Award-nominee Peter Weir (Master and Commander, The Truman Show, and The Dead Poets Society) recently directed The Way Back, a much-anticipated film based on The Long Walk. Starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, and Ed Harris, it is due for release in 2011.
Author Notes
Slavomir Rawicz lived in England after the war, settling near Nottingham and working as a handicrafts and woodworking instructor, a cabinetmaker, and later as a technician in architectural ceramics at a school of art and design. He married an Englishwoman, with whom he had five children. He retired in 1975 after a heart attack and lived a quiet life in the countryside until his death in 2004.
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Library Journal Review
In 1939, Rawicz was arrested by the Russians as a spy and sent to a labor camp in Siberia. He escaped with six other prisoners, heading south to India, across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas. British actor John Lee's forceful narration, perfectly matched to the text's pace, expresses the strength and defiance that kept Rawicz alive. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Introduction to the Polish Edition | p. ix |
| I Kharkov and the Lubyanka | p. 1 |
| II Trial and Sentence | p. 12 |
| III From Prison to Cattle Truck | p. 23 |
| IV Three Thousand Miles by Train | p. 37 |
| V Chain Gang | p. 47 |
| VI End of the Journey | p. 58 |
| VII Life in Camp 303 | p. 67 |
| VIII The Wife of the Commissar | p. 81 |
| IX Plans for Escape | p. 93 |
| X Seven Cross the Lena River | p. 105 |
| XI Baikal and a Fugitive Girl | p. 116 |
| XII Kristina Joins the Party | p. 128 |
| XIII Across the Trans-Siberian Railway | p. 139 |
| XIV Eight Enter Mongolia | p. 152 |
| XV Life Among the Friendly Mongols | p. 165 |
| XVI The Gobi Desert: Hunger, Drought and Death | p. 177 |
| XVII Snake Meat and Mud | p. 191 |
| XVIII The Last of the Gobi | p. 203 |
| XIX Six Enter Tibet | p. 215 |
| XX Five By-Pass Lhasa | p. 228 |
| XXI Himalayan Foothills | p. 241 |
| XXII Strange Creatures | p. 253 |
| XXIII Four Reach India | p. 264 |
| Afterword to the 1997 Edition | p. 274 |
